Survey system

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-07-13
INVOKE SOLUTIONS
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[0028] The term remarks is used herein to refer to respondent statements which are not answers to questions of the survey session. The remarks may relate to answers of other respondents, to questions of the survey and/or to remarks of other respondents or may be related to any other issue, such as to the quality of the stimuli or general remarks without relation to any specific statement. In some embodiments of the

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Closed questions allow fast analysis of the answers, and therefore collection of data from a large number of respondents, but do not provide for idea collection from the respondents.
This allows for collecting ideas from the respondents but makes the analysis much harder.
Focus group discussions, however, are generally l

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[0104]FIG. 1 is a generalized block diagram of an on-line survey system 100, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. A plurality of respondents 102 connect, for example using computers 104, to a presentation station 110, which is used to manage a survey. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, computers 104 connect to presentation station 110 through a communications medium 106 (e.g., an Internet).

[0105] Presentation station 110 optionally provides questions and stimuli to respondents 102 via computers 104 and receives responses from respondents 102. Alternatively or additionally, stimuli may be provided to the respondents using other methods, such as mail and cable TV. Presentation station 110 optionally governs the display format on computers 104 and the method of allowing input of data from respondents 102. Optionally, each computer 104 operates a web browser which runs file received from presentation station 110. Alternatively or additionally, a dedicated softwa...

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Abstract

A method of conducting a survey. The method includes providing a plurality of questions to respondents, at least some questions being provided to a plurality of the respondents, collecting answers to the questions from the respondents, transfer-ring at least some of the answers to respondents other than those who generated the answers, collecting responses to the transferred answers, at least some of the responses being qualitative, and providing a statistical report which is at least partially based on qualitative responses collected from the respondents.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application is a continuation in part (CIP) of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 258,822, filed on Oct. 25, 2002, which is a national phase of PCT patent application PCT / IL01 / 00391, filed on May 1, 2001, which claims the benefit under 119(e) of U.S. provisional patent application 60 / 200,837, filed on May 1, 2000. The application also claims the benefit under 119(e) of U.S. provisional patent application 60 / 424,328, filed on Nov. 7, 2002. The disclosure of all of these applications are incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention is related to the field of performing surveys, for example surveys in which the respondents discuss issues with each other. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Surveying prospective buyers for information is an important tool of industry in deciding on investments, for example in new products, their packaging, pricing and components. Surveying is also used in other fields, for e...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F19/00G06F15/16G06F17/30G06Q30/00
CPCG06Q30/02
Inventor MIZRAHI, AHARON RONENWEISENSTERN, AMIR MEIR
Owner INVOKE SOLUTIONS
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